Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dent, Frederick Lamont October 27, 1938
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot October 28, 1938

                   DENT'S DEATH LEAVES CAUSE STILL IN DOUBT

       Man Found Mysteriously Injured Dies Without Regaining Consciousness

Frederick L. Dent, 68, of 509 West Twenty-fifth Street, mysteriously injured 
about the head early last Friday, died at 12:45 p.m. yesterday at a local 
hospital without having regained consciousness.
Dr. C.D.J. MacDonald, city coroner, said an autopsy showed Dent died of multiple 
fractures of the skull and a contusion of the brain, and that he apparently had 
been struck more than one blow on the head although the blows could have been 
caused by being struck by a vehicle or being thrown from one, the coroner said, 
adding his autopsy showed the skull was thin.
Dent was found crumpled up and unconscious beside a confectionery on the 
northwest corner of Colonial Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street by a policeman early 
last Friday morning. He was taken to the General Hospital where an examination 
revealed eight skull fractures and a slight bruise on one knee.
                               Investigation Fruitless
Dent left his home about 5 a.m. to catch a Naval Base street car and make 
connections with the ferry to Newport News. He was not on the corner when the 
car passed, a detective said after interviewing the motorman, and so far no one 
has been located who saw him before the patrolman found him unconscious and 
bleeding from the head.  
Detective W.T. Walker, assigned to the case, stated Dent's glasses had been 
crushed by the wheels of a street car and his hat was found in the street. 
Little less than $2 he was known to have in his pockets when he left home could 
not be found on him.
Either he was struck down by a vehicle and staggered to the sidewalk and fell or 
he was beaten unmercifully with a heavy instrument and robbed, detectives said 
they believed. Not the slightest clue has been found so far to indicate either.
Dent was the husband of Mrs. Prudis A. Dent and son of the late Frederick L. and 
Mrs. Martha Dent. He was a native of Charles County, Md. and had been a resident 
of Norfolk 40 years.
In addition to his wife he is survived by a sister, Mrs. Lydia Dent Wolfe and 
two brothers, Warren and Sydney Dent, all of Washington, D.C. and three step 
daughters, Mrs. A.J. Wood, Jr., of Norfolk; Mrs. William Scott, of Pennsylvania 
and Mrs. George L. Snyder, of Richmond.
The body will be take from the H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, 1501 Colonial 
Avenue, to Sacred Heart Catholic Church for funeral services tomorrow morning at 
10 o'clock. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.


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